Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-13
DAKOTA NEWS.

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Grand Forks is to have street cars.
The Dollar Weekly is new publica-
at Roswell.
Chicago parties will locate o second
creamery at Gary.
There nre indications of a county seat
fight in Brown County.
The salary of the City Clerk at Sioux
Falls is $1,000 year.
There are upwards of 10000 Canadian
settlers in North Dakota.
ID. NJ. Donahey, of Edmunds County,
has planted $50 acres of wheat.
Pierre is to have broom factory to be
operated on IN extensive scale.
Work on the new cracker factory build
ing at Sioux Falls has commenced.
The Sioux Falls Marshall will 20 gun
ming for unlicensed dogs on the 10th of
May.
Oliver Dalrymple, the bonanza farmer
of Dakota. will SOW $4,000 acres of wheat
this year.
An electric light tower is being erected
at Fargo and will be ready for use by the
Goth of May.
Rev. w. P. Craig was installed as pas.
tor of the Presbyterian Church at Siou1
Falls recently.
The interstate commerce law has not
affected the freight rates at Pierre, as they
remain the same as formerly.
-R.verdale is new town plated at the
junction point of the Manitoba and North
western roads, near Aberdeen.
Huron stands good show of getting n
free mail delivery whenever she numbers
her houses and labels the streets.
Six hundred patents have been re.
ceived ut the Huron land Office, and will
be distributed MS soon as possible.
-1roquois, always modest in its wants,
now desires painter, a paper-hanger, q
dentist and some one to build q mill.
"A petition asking for the establish
ment of the free delivery system. in that
city, is being circulated at Sioux Falls.
Sioux Falls business men have decided
to incorporate board of trade and build q
three-story building of Sioux Falls granite.
The printers of Aberdeen have formed
the Aberdeen Typographical union. OFF,
GERS have been elected and q charter sent
for.
1t is foregone conclusion that the
city of Aberdeen will vote for city hall
costing $4,000 at the special election of
May Is, us the old building has become
grossly inadequate to the growing needs of
the city government.
The crap outlook in Sphinx, Brown,
Day, Kingsbury and Beadle counties is re :
ported to be the most favorable vet
known. The farmers have finished seed
ing and wheat is for enough out of the
ground to make good showing.
In the case of L. N. Parent, of Bea-
die, charged with incest with his
two daughters, confession was OBJ
tanned from the elder daughter by o man
engaged by the prosecution, who proposed
marriage to her for the purpose.
The towns along the line of the North
western road between Watertown and
Brookings have petitioned the department
for the establishment of postal service on
that line, and ask that D. o. Fraser, of
Watertown be appointed postal clerk.
The Lead City board of trade have
made contract with the Bittner Theater
company to play six-night engagement
at Lead, the proceeds to be donated to the
Fourth of July celebration fund. The
Tribune says the fund will also receive
$1,000 in subscriptions.
"A colony of 200 people, mostly from
the little State of Vermont, will locate in
Hettinger County this season. This county
lies south of Stark County on the trail run
ming from Dickinson to the Black Hills.
1t is we'll watered, and is said to contain q
large amount of excellent land.
Petitions to the district court for O
special election on the removal of the
county seat Of Brown county are being
circulated. Public interest is largely en-
crossed by this question and every indica-
ton shows that the largest vote ever polled
in the county will be cast at this election.
ID. P. Ward, of Sioux Falls, is pre-
pairing two maps to be exhibited before the
International Sunday-school convention to
be held in Chicago in June. One of the
maps shows the number and location of
the Sunday-schools in Dakota ten years
ago. At that time there were about fifty
Sunday-schools, all of which were located
in eight or ten of the southeastern counties
of the Territory. The other map will
show the location of the 1000 Sunday
schools now in successful operation in Da-
kota- very good showing, by the way.
In electing D. S. Glidden warden OF
the Sioux Falls penitentiary, the board of
directors won the esteem and hearty en-.
dorsement of every citizen who is ac-
quaintcd with the generous, whole-souled
DAN" Mr.. Glidden is not only wide.
awake, creditable Dakotan, but he is a
gentleman of the highest type. That he
will prove q competent and conscientious
official the Tribune is confident, and ex
tends its congratulations upon his success.
Bismarck Tribune.